He has almost no name recognition... no one knows where he stands on any issue, and raising $$ will be a problem until he shows himself to be viable.
Hunter has more name recognition than you realize. And he's doing well in the poll on the FR forum page.
Would you support Duncan Hunter to be the Republican nominee for President in '08?
Undecided
32.6%
Strongly support
30.3%
Support
23.2%
Oppose
8.0%
Strongly oppose
5.9%
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1758570/posts
He has his own website up, he's running his campaign now, few people knew anything about Clinton when he started, and he's a good man.
If you are really interested, check out his website, or if you are really ambitious, go to THOMAS and check out his Congressional Record - he's been down there a LONG time.